I ordered a new PC and specifically requested a nVidia graphics card because of the continuous problems with Radeon and now with every kernel update X comes to a grinding halt because of that blasted non-functional nouveau driver that interferes with the nVidia driver.

Last edited by Gordon on Wed Nov 30, 2011 21:02, edited 1 time in total.

Nope, nouveau is not installed. And neither are sis, radeon, s3, via, intel and some other drivers that I have no clue about. The kernel modules are just there with every new kernel pushed by equo, even if I only select the kernel to be installed and verify in the progress view.

It's a new system. Being familiar with Gentoo I thought it unwise to start off with my existing 5.2 install disk (it's practically impossible to get up to date with Gentoo if you've fallen back say a year or more) and downloaded a fresh copy of Sabayon 6 (I dislike that it includes a standard activated firewall BTW), so the first kernel revision introducing the problem would be 2.6.39-r-[something]. Next the 3.0.0 release and today the revision on 3.0.0.

The thing that puzzles me is that a kernel module gets installed even when the package that the module is supposed to belong to has been removed. I have every driver, as far as dependencies allow me to, removed and still see many of the corresponding drivers pop up in the /lib/modules directory. Why is that?

@FitzcarraldoGood hint about the blacklist option. Didn't know it existed and will most definitely apply it before the next kernel update. Much appreciated.

I may have found the reason for that. I verified on my older system that was originally installed as version 5.2 and found that nouveau was in fact already included in the blacklist file. Not so on the fresh 6.0 install however.

So I'm guessing that means that version 6.0 was built from scratch and you forgot to apply the fixes for hardware issues that you already knew about. You should probably investigate what other old issues may have returned by starting over.

I guess it's fine now. The new 3.1 kernel boots just fine into graphic mode with the new blacklist. I noticed the blacklist nouveau and a bunch of other blacklist items was also included in a conf update I pulled in a while back.